The orchid family comprises several thousand different flowers, but Piaget has chosen four of them to adorn the dials of Piaget Altiplano models. Bearing the fascinating names of Cattleya, Doritaenopsis-Kenneth Schubert, Doritaenopsis-Malibu Easter and Dendrobium-Pale Doreen, they were selected to grace the four one-of-a-kind creations painted using the technique of miniature enamelling.
Taking full advantage of the spacious dial, the petals unfurl across the entire surface in a spectacular array of colours and slender veins.
To achieve this result, the enameller used the miniature technique serving to reproduce motifs on a small scale in enamel. It took the craftsman a full month of work to achieve the final result that also involved a second technique: flinqué enamelling. Used here to create the background, this method is based on a guilloche-work surface covered with a transparent and lightly tinted surface.
Each unique in its own right, these dials are housed within 18-carat white gold cases set with brilliant-cut diamonds. Inside it throbs the brand’s pride and joy: the Piaget 430P ultra-thin mechanical hand-wound movement.
